Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
1976, English. Directed by Lennie Mayne.
When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 23 October 1976
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- Bob Baker, Dave Martin
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Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear runs 100 minutes (1h 40m).
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Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 23 October 1976. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear?
Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear (1976) was directed by Lennie Mayne and stars Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Stephen Thorne.